No beer, imo, can top a lager from the Bavarian region. Doesn't matter if it's Hofbrau, Weihenstephaner, etc. Basically, all of them are good. I have never real

No beer, imo, can top a lager from the Bavarian region. Doesn't matter if it's Hofbrau, Weihenstephaner, etc. Basically, all of them are good. I have never really understood why they haven't been more successful in market penetration. The closest two commercially successful beers, at least in the US, that are even similar are Stella and Heineken. I do know that there was some backlash of German beers being brewed in the US. I know Lowenbrau was once quite popular, but they did a brewing partnership with Coors...I think, which changed the taste and it fell out of the US market. Now a lot of German restaurants have the beer shipped straight from Germany. A lot of people drink IPAs now, but American IPAs to me just taste like cheaply made beer that's expensive to purchase.